A Rust wrapper around Steam Audio, bringing powerful spatial audio capabilities to the Rust ecosystem.
Steam Audio is a toolkit for spatial audio, developed by Valve. It simulates realistic sound propagation, including effects like directionality, distance attenuation, and reflections.
AudioNimbus provides a safe and ergonomic Rust interface to Steam Audio, enabling developers to integrate immersive spatial audio into their Rust projects. It consists of two crates:
audionimbus: A high-level, safe wrapper around Steam Audio.audionimbus-sys: Automatically generated raw bindings to the Steam Audio C API.
Both can integrate with FMOD Studio and Wwise.
AudioNimbus supports a variety of spatial audio effects, including:
- Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF): Simulates how the listener’s ears, head, and shoulders shape sound perception, providing the acoustic cues the brain uses to infer direction and distance.
- Ambisonics and surround sound: Uses multiple audio channels to create the sensation of sound coming from specific directions.
- Sound propagation: Models how sound is affected as it travels through its environment, including effects like distance attenuation and interaction with physical obstacles of varying materials.
- Reflections: Simulates how sound waves reflect off surrounding geometry, mimicking real-world acoustic behavior.
For a demonstration of AudioNimbus' capabilities, watch the walkthrough video.
To get started using audionimbus, check out the demo for a practical example of how to integrate and use the library in your project.
This repository is dual-licensed under the MIT License and the Apache-2.0 License. You may choose either license when using the software.